A young cocaine dealer is gunned down at the door of his apartment on the outskirts of downtown Helsinki. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamaki and his homicide team find the trigger man—but who was working behind the scenes?

A woman from a neighboring building comes forward with an image of the getaway driver's face burned into her memory. After testifying in the trial, she finds herself the target of an escalating spiral of threats. Not wishing to uproot her life, she and her twelve-year-old daughter risk death by spurning the police's offer of a safe house. As the threats mount, the witness is torn between her principles and her desire to keep her family safe. How much should an ordinary citizen sacrifice for the benefit of society as a whole?

"Police! On the ground!" he shouted, but the men at the table didn't move. That's when Dahlman noticed a second man sitting on the opposite side of the table. Both appeared to be drinking coffee

"Get on the ground!" Dahlman shouted, again with no result. The men sat motionless, not even glancing towards the door. Dahlman recalled a training scenario where a deaf man couldn't hear their commands. He quickly eliminated that possibility, since he could see their mouths moving and hear them talking.

"Can't a man drink coffee in his own house?" said the bald one, whom Dahlman recognized as Risto Korpi, their main target. The other man laughed.

Korpi turned his head towards the door and asked in a calm voice, "With or without the coffee cup?"​